I watched an old episode of Call the Midwife today, and I had a good chuckle at how freaking grim this deceptively gentle production gets. It's generally sweet, because everyone's more or less striving to do the best they can in hard circumstances, but the episode in question had this hardluck story about four children put through horrific neglect... then saved! But as a throwaway closer, the narrator informs us they were sent to Australia, where they would be horribly abused again. THE END. 🙃
@MLClark The early seasons were far more stark than the later seasons. They've fallen into a formula where everything and everyone is sweet and nice and there's a happy ending.
I know they're just providing what their target audience wants, but some of the early risks have gone poof.
Sister Monica Joan was going cuckoo -- but not any more.
The lesbian couple left town.
Sister Mary Cynthia disappeared.
Nurse Barbara faked her death so she and her husband could open a haunted B&B. 😊